"Dylan wants to make a rectangular chicken run at the back of the house.
She buys 12 metres of fencing wire.
What is the largest area run that she can make for her chickens?
What if Dylan has 60 metres of fencing?"
In class, we discussed what skills were require to complete this problem. In order to answer this question, you would need the ability to multiply numbers, and calculate the area of a object.
Many of my classmates had trouble distinguishing whether or not they had to calculate the area or calculate the perimeter of the chicken run, some not realising until much later in the period.
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